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I am a father of two, who has been a paramedic for 15 years and a professional photographer for around 5. That is until recently, from the 1st of May 2017 I will no longer work on the frontline full time. Instead I have made the transition from specialist paramedic to advanced practitioner and will be working full time in primary care. This blog will chart the development of myself from my current role of specialist paramedic to an advanced practitioner. In the last year I was diagnosed with Ankylosing spondylitis. Which is a degenerative condition which affects the spine. While this diagnosis saddened me obviously. It also came as a relief as I had struggled for over a year and had no idea what was wrong with me. So the diagnosis also came with some relief as I finally had a name to put to my condition. It did help me to look forward and consider a new career pathway. I am the first paramedic to work in primary care in my practice area. This is quite an accolade.

Monday 21 February 2011

The Technique Behind Martin Schoeller’s Photography

I came across a very interesting and amazing photographer while planning research for my next studio brief. 



Jack Nicholson


Barak Obahma


Christopher Walken 



http://martinschoeller.com/


Schoeller grew up in Germany and worked as an assistant to Annie Leibovitz another of my favourite photgraphers. He then became a freelance photographer producing street portraits of people he met. 

He uses the same photography lighting techniques for most of his studio portraits, he also seems to use a close up style portrait technique similar to one that I favour. As well as a medium format camera. 
I love his style and technique, he has undoubtedly stamped his own style on each portrait. In fact more so than many other portrait photographers manage to do.

His use of strip lights creates a really interesting lighting technique and the catch lights in the eyes become very unusual, they draw you to the centre of the image. The details in each portrait are phenomenal, this is achieved using medium format cameras. Another technique that I would like to study further.

You can find more detail on his very interesting lighting techniques here :


Also a rather interesting video of several of his videos here :





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2 comments:

  1. TWSY17 April 2011 at 06:41

    All very interesting. Would you like me to be a model for you sometime soon? Rather like offering myself as a model for a student of hairdressing, though less to lose....maybe.

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  2. Me26 April 2011 at 09:03

    Yes please Tom, means travelling to Harrogate though.

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